Posting to let you know you're not alone. Judging from your tracert you seem to live in PA as I do and I'm getting horrible latency starting around 8 pm to 11 pm EST.

Everytime I do a tracert I can almost never get anything from a San Jose node. Specifically, ae-2.r24.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.6.237]

Here's mine for reference, I edited the few beginning steps but they were all perfect. Also like you the very last hop before the FFXIV server always times out as well I'm not even sure what that one is.


5 12 ms 12 ms 11 ms 96.110.2.33
6 12 ms 13 ms 12 ms be-31641-cs04.pittsburgh.pa.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.42.173]
7 11 ms 14 ms 12 ms be-1411-cr11.pittsburgh.pa.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.38.142]
8 16 ms 17 ms 15 ms be-301-cr12.beaumeade.va.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.39.165]
9 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms be-1312-cs03.beaumeade.va.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.84.153]
10 18 ms 20 ms 19 ms be-3311-pe11.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.32.130]
11 22 ms 19 ms 20 ms 50.208.234.170
12 15 ms 17 ms 24 ms ae-3.r24.asbnva02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.2.144]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 79 ms 77 ms 77 ms ae-4.r00.scrmca02.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.7.57]
15 76 ms 76 ms 76 ms xe-0-1-0-1-1.r00.scrmca02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [192.80.16.2]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 77 ms 77 ms 76 ms 204.2.229.116